Emoji Candidates

The following emoji characters are candidates for inclusion in a future version of Unicode. These characters were based on proposals received by the Unicode Consortium, reviewed by the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, and selected on the basis of the Emoji Selection Factors in Submitting Emoji Character Proposals.

Provisional candidates are subject to prioritization, and may not included be in the next release of Unicode. Draft candidates are “short-listed”, and have been assigned draft code points, but are still subject to change or removal. Final candidates will be in the next release of Unicode, but do not have final code points or properties.

The Attributes column contains provisional information about the candidate:

X indicates where the character (tentatively) would be after X in Emoji Ordering.

modifier_base indicates that the character would allow skin-tone modifiers

gender_base indicates that the character would have ZWJ sequences for gender

component indicates that the character is used as a component of a sequence, and is not normally listed separately on emoji keyboards.

Feedback on the CLDR Short Name, Keywords, ordering, and category is welcome.

When looking at the linked proposals for candidates or accepted characters it is important to keep two points in mind:

The UTC may accept a proposal for reasons other than those stated in the proposal, and does not necessarily endorse or consider relevant all of the proposed reasons.

While these charts use a particular version of the Unicode Emoji data files, the images and format may be updated at any time. For any production usage, those data files should be consulted. For more information, see Index & Help.